Blockbuster's Death Spiral Continues With Plan to Close 300 Stores

Right now, there are three remaining Blockbuster stores in Dallas proper. That's down considerably from the gazillions that once crowned street corners during the heady days of VHS, before movies could be conveniently dispensed from a red box or instantaneously zapped onto your telephone, and that number could drop even further.

It might also have something to do with Blockbuster's failure to effectively compete with Netflix, Redbox and the like, though the spokesman insisted that Dish continues "to see value in the Blockbuster brand and we will continue to analyze store level profitability and -- as we have in the past -- close unprofitable stores."